skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm ... I personally think it's overpriced. Your initial users will probably be technology startups who can easily hack an HTML pitch deck. They can even use a blogging platform and there are a bunch of JS libraries that gives powerpoint style presentation. So your best bet is to lower the price as much as possible to give a better incentive for them not do it manually and then you can make money on the volume of subscriptions.
Anyways, I like the look and feel of the whole thing. Good luck.
Lol. Very true.

I don't know if the threat is credible or not. I suspect it is, given Stuxnet, but I confess I don't have access to military intelligence and probably wouldn't know what to make of it if I did.

I just take issue with the "this was wrong before so it must be wrong now" implication.
Careful. Within your own frame of reference, time always progresses at a normal rate. When you are traveling near the speed of light, distances contract; at the speed of light, all distances in the direction of travel would be zero.

On the other hand, someone stationary watching you travel near the speed of light would say that your clock slows down more the faster you move, but lengths stay the same.
Amazing video game themed half-time show
I'm recently converted to Stripe Connect for http://www.buyplaytix.com and I LOVE it. So far I haven't had a single ticket seller complain about having to switch over to it, and not one support request.
In the comments, someone (from last week) linked to this post:
http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2011/09/07/creating-a-new-thunderb...

So, it seems like work on a better address book is ongoing.
Can you imagine doing that every single day of your life(putting the monitor face down on the desk surface, then bringing it back up)? This is engineering - I think we can come up with something better (like your monitor mount idea).
I looked at his posting history first before making an effort to communicate. He seems to have an extreme, hostile bias against theory but otherwise comes across as well-intentioned, if misguided.
They are not treating books as though they have no value; quite the opposite. The way they sell things allows each individual to acknowledge the value the item has for them, and to pay as much for that value as they can afford.

It allows people from every economic status to have access to the piece of culture represented by these books, and to contribute what they can afford to the authors.

Humble Bundle recognizes that culture restricted to segments of the population capable of paying an arbitrarily set price is not shared culture. The value of something is not set by a pricetag.

(Also, I am even more confused now how you can simultaneously think they are treating books poorly by allowing consumers to pay what they can, and also be disappointed that the books do not have more permissive licensing...)
Waza (Heroku's Conference) 2012 Videos
So, I quit my job and decide to bootstrap a company. I've launched my product and it's in its very early stages of gaining traction.

I'm not allowed to say "I'm working on a startup?" - even though my cofounder(s) and I have poured tens of thousands of our own money into it and have been full-timing it for months?

Forgive me for being blunt: but this reads like whining. You want the your use of the word "startup" to automatically grant you some credibility, and are complaining about people who are trying to do the same.

You will find this in any community. You're not a real painter unless you [blank], you're not a real photographer unless you [blank], you're not a real writer unless you [blank], you're not a real programmer unless you [blank]. And now, you're not a real startup unless you [blank].
This tool sounds like a nice addition to "Light Table".
So many rippable quotes in this article. Here are just a few of my favorites:

"If you were expecting Windows Phone 8′s app ecosystem to be one of its main selling points, think again."

Windows app ecosystem has never been one of its strongest setlling points. At no time has its app store even come close to competing with Apple or Android. Its main selling point is the integration with its existing platform. Bing maps, Skydrive, Outlook, etc. I have no idea why this guy thought it should be a major selling point now.

"A multitude of pundits have weighed in, and the consensus from them is that Microsoft might just be buying time because the platform isn’t quite done yet."

After Apple completely bungled their recent release, I would've thought there was going to be some praise following this paragraph. The funny thing is, I'm wondering if this guy even reads the articles on his own site. Just last week this article was on their front page:

"Microsoft promises major Windows 8 app improvements before Oct 26 launch"
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/137469-microsoft-promis...

"Microsoft is letting marketing dictate the deployment of software instead of what’s really best for the product"

FALSE. I would instead give them credit for seeing the failures of Apple's release and the backlash which ensued. Can you fault them for making sure their product is ready when it hits the stores?

"Almost any other company on the planet would have washed its hands of Windows Phone after a second unsuccessful holiday season."

Yes, because supporting a handset manufacturer who just lost a multi-billion dollar patent infringement case is so much safer right?

There's more, but these are the ones that stuck out at me.
Change "able to produce" with "willing to sell for" and my point remains the same.

I agree that you're not going to get a "supercomputer" for less than about $100,000. But supercomputers are defined by what they can do. Their cost is secondary. Necessary in a world without magic, but secondary. I can spend $100,000 on a computer, but that alone does not make it a "supercomputer".
I'm not sure what this means. c cannot be exceeded in any frame of reference. Your "local" velocity is always zero -- you always measure your own speed with respect to yourself to be zero.

From your perspective, reaching the speed of light causes all distances in the direction of travel to become zero. Your clock functions correctly and time travels at the ordinary pace. From a stationary observer's perspective, distances are the same but your clock has stopped.
We've been using this for awhile for Zenbox, and it's been such a pleasure. The implementation was straightforward, and it instantly made Stripe the easiest integration for our users. We've since pushed every one of our providers for OAuth as it's just so much nicer from a user's perspective.

Well done to Stripe for such experience-focused feature releases.
This part is so true: "Obviously, our present government believes that taking my money is the right economic stimulus for this country. The fact is, if I deducted 50 percent of your paycheck you'd quit and you wouldn't work here. I mean, why should you? Who wants to get rewarded only 50 percent of their hard work? Well, that's what happens to me."

Excellent article.
>>Careful. Within your own frame of reference, time always progresses at a normal rate.

You are correct. I don't think I said otherwise. I guess I should have been clearer, time slows down in the frame of reference traveling at c when looking at it from a different frame of reference. I'm sure we are saying the same thing.

>>at the speed of light, all distances in the direction of travel would be zero.

Yeah, but a person observing you in a different frame of reference won't see that. The fact that distances are zero is just another way of saying that time has slowed down in your frame of reference. Is just two faces of the same coin.
https://stripe.com/docs/connect#payments-flow - The screenshots on this page are what your clients would see if you told them to create an account with Stripe.
But where is the disaster part? You wouldn't use it to host anything serious, right?
@10char: If you're saying that you meant any of 3 paths(funding/revenue/users), then you might want to rephrase more explicitly, i.e. "either of a, b or c" OR "a or b or c", because it currently reads as a+b or c.
It's about time, the old one was really ugly and sometimes confusing
Agreed. The Intel images turn the emulator into a generally useful tool. If you enable graphics acceleration in the AVD performance is more than good enough for testing the apps I've tried so far.

The emulator does take a while to start but that's a one-time cost.
As a salesperson, do you have an online presence?
The delays made the trip awesome. I haven't gotten onto a train in a decade but tier-2 AC is the greatest travel experience in the world.
I think many startups and successful entrepreneurs can appreciated this part:

"...People like me who made all the right decisions and invested in themselves are being forced to bail out all the people who didn't. The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed 42 years of my life for."
Speaking of Twitter acquihire technology, does anyone know whatever happened to do BackType?

They had really great twitter search technology and I was hoping it would be integrated into twitter when they were acquired a while back, but judging from Twitter's search results, it looks like it hasn't.
I forget where I first read that $12 was fair market value, but I will be more than happy to buy in at that price. I doubt they will break below $10.
Perhaps I should start prefixing all my files with file_ as well, so when I'm looking at stuff on the file system, I'll know it's a file vs a symlink. I'll always know when I sort by filename to start looking under "f" if I want a file.

What's interesting about the "use what works" mantra invoked here is it's not saying who this should work for. A database is a resource that's typically shared between multiple parties, and enforcing one somewhat arbitrary rule for the convenience of one party to the detriment of another party doesn't sound very amicable.
It gets a bit metaphysical, but consider how many more possible universes there are in a universe which is likely to generate a recursive simulation than in one which is not.

That is, the probability that the probability of being in a simulation is high in a given possible universe is, itself, high, ad infinitum, if simulation is possible, hence again why being able to simulate our universe is an important point of evidence.
That's pretty cool, I didn't know that, but it isn't going to be enough. Would you sign up for a site that needs your bank routing number simply based on a small dialog?
Timbre Connects Local Musicians with iPhone Users
> It's much more user-friendly than bugzilla IMO

That's a pretty low bar to set though.

> and it handles bugs that affect multiple projects really well

Kind-of, changing the project set (outside of adding projects to an existing bug) might be impossible (same with in-project "series" — its code for branches), until fairly recently the role of some statuses was very unclear (and I'm still not entirely sure of their actual use), one of the links is essentially useless and — as everywhere else in launchpad — text formatting is completely non-existent (without even talking about richer data sets, such as adding screenshots to bug reports which falls under "add attachment or patch").

Multi-project and multi-branch tracking are nice, but they're limited and they don't make the tracker much friendlier.
I've always wondered if the concept of wormholes too violated causality (other potential problems aside)...
The "why" in the framework of special relativity would be "because the Lorentz transformations rotate points in four-dimensional spacetime."

If you imagine every event as having (x,y,z,t) coordinates in a particular reference frame, the Lorentz transformation is a 4x4 matrix which rotates events to show what would be observed in another reference frame. You trade spatial distance for temporal distance and vice versa.

This comes out of the structure of spacetime, rather than viscosity of some kind, which would be visible as a force.
Also, when traveling at the speed of light the entire universe would appear to have collapsed down to a single point, because of length contraction. So really, the notion of movement or change completely breaks down when you are moving at the speed of light... except in your reference frame were everything is normal. Also, it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate something to the speed of light, so the speed of light is a limit that you can never actually reach (i.e. an asymptotic limit).
I was careful to say that the image model is great for a single programmer, but not that at was bad for large teams -- simply that large teams are a (current) strength of the file model. Large teams are built of individuals, after all, and there's no reason they can't use images on their own. There's just not much in the way of tooling (yet) to support integration at the image level.

Is this limitation inherent? I think that's impossible to say. How many people accurately predicted the importance of a DVCS, before ever seeing one built? Or for that matter, a garbage collector? In cases where it's not obvious, the tools drive our understanding.

I don't see anything inherent in image models that would prevent this, though languages don't seem designed in a way that would make this particularly easy. For example, right now we're collaboratively editing a (very simple) shared image (HN).
I understand the lengths the Federal Circuit will go to in supporting patents, I just think it would be difficult even for them to require prior art to be tied to a particular architecture but allow a patent to claim the use of any general purpose processor. I wouldn't be particularly surprised if they tried to go that way, but it seems like that would make it even more likely that the Supreme Court would overrule.
How about contributing something to the discussion?
Yeah, that's the downside of having something awesome like this.
I would assume that Stripe would like to be in every locale and demand has nothing to do with it, they are just having to make sure they're fully compliant in each major area of the world they want to enter. That is probably a very large obstacle to overcome.
Or you could just ride a recumbent.

The only reason they ride uprights at races is regulations.
What irks me most about the regular Android emulators and actually also testing on the devices themselves, is that alot of restrictions seems to be off in dev mode. In my instance i was using a jsonp webservice over https. Everything worked aces on the 2.1-2.3 emulators, and a device in dev mode, but when I published the app, turns out that the SSL certs, or rather the ssl trust chain, wasnt trusted in "Retail" mode on Android 2.1 and 2.2.. Why oh why did it work in the emulators and on the devices while developing..

On topic, this looks great!
Lorentz transformations, which are a consequence of the observation that the speed of light appears constant independent of the motion of the transmitter and the receiver. IIRC, the force required to double your speed goes up exponentially as your speed approaches the speed of light.

[Edit: "the force required to double your speed" is pretty damn meaningless. What I"m looking for is something like "your mass effectively increases exponentially as your speed..." Sorry.]

[Edit v2: How about this: "For a given force, your acceleration decreases as if your mass were increasing exponentially as your speed approaches the speed of light."]
Another company had these for sale at our local home show 3 weeks ago, functionality and movement is identical.
More pedantically, the math you've been trained to do to find a velocity 's' as the sum of two velocities 'v' and 'u' in the same direction is s = v + u.

The real formula is s = (v+u)/(1+(vu/c^2)).

For small values of v and u, vu/c^2 is approximately 0, leaving you with the standard (Galilean) formula, but only as an approximation.

See Wikipedia for a discussion and formulae for vector addition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity-addition_formula
It worked now (just tried again 30 minutes later).
I am not a physicist, but as I understand it,

Yup.
Apart from selling it to individual customers, that would be a good idea to employ on a bigger scale in cheap university halls. There are some big companies renting rooms for students (for example "unite" in UK) that are constructing new accommodation points all the time. A desk like that might add a lot of value to some of the smaller rooms.
Unfortunately, it's only the first 95 pages.
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The original team that worked on the Feed was a mashup between Milo and Hunch folks; there were two engineers from Milo, one from Hunch, and a couple of product people from both sides. eBay Now was born completely under the Milo umbrella. Svpply hasn't been involved.
This is on our short list of items to implement.
I think they're trying to convey that anything you use to read ebooks can read these books. If they said e-reader, I'd assume an e-ink device. (I guess some people might assume it's incompatible with their obscure, but pdf-supporting tablet.)
Changed classes and mixins to use function constructors, so instanceof operator will work for both scenarios.
Magical virus in freezer in Sweden that cures cancer. But...

"Big business won’t stump up the £2million needed to fund the first stage of clinical trials, because there is no money to be made."

People really just don't understand how pharmaceuticals work. There are piles and piles of evils in the industry that range from stupidity to misprioritization to valuing the dollar over human lives, but a couple million dollars of investment for an even unlikely cure for cancer is something most companies would jump at.
The Secure Remote Password protocol
Most-recently-opened, an undervalued interface pattern
It is a category mistake to expect a TV appearance to acutely drive views of an online video.

This is because TV is analog and there's no link to click on when PSY is on Ellen. This also means that the ratio of people who are driven to watch his video online because he was on TV is very small.

Of those people who end up watching the video because they saw him on TV, their views are likely dispersed over a long period of time rather than at a single moment like they might be when an article on a very large web portal like Yahoo directly links to the video.
SideCar Raises $10 Million From Google Ventures, Lightspeed
Yes. And you can learn much about that, by looking at bike usage in different countries.
I thought the reasoning was that MS didn't wand devs tomstop developing for 7.x and since these apps would run on 8 anyway, why not wait a while before releasing the SDK.
Yeah, we'll probably build something like that at some point. Stripe Connect has been in production for months on a lot of different sites, though, and the lack of this hasn't seemed to cause issues in practice. So we decided it shouldn't hold up the launch.
Question: is there an agreed upon starting position of the pieces when having these types of competitions? Ie, both the robot and the human had to solve the exact same problem?

Thanks
I'm also curious to know. I think it's a really good opportunity for showcasing work and giving back to the community.
"The theory says you will STILL measure the beams of light as flying away from you at the speed of light relative to you."

It's not really "the theory"; in this case, the actual experiment[1] predated the math.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experi...
As one of the HN contributors who mocked the GHz performance spec in an earlier discussion thread, I welcome the fact that you're engaging in debate about this.

That said, I still think that the GHz stat is just about as BAD a metric as any (I suppose "pin count times # of cores" would be worse :-). About the only positive inference I can draw from this is that you have the thermal situation in your system under control.

But piling up cores and cooling them is, IMHO, one of the easiest parts of designing a massively parallel system. The interesting part of the design is the interconnections between the cores, and any metric that multiplies single core performance by number of cores tells me nothing about that.

So not only am I not learning a key part of the performance characteristics of your system, but by omitting it, you make me wonder whether the ENGINEERING of the system might be similarly misguided on this aspect as the MARKETING seems to be (i.e. does marketing omit this aspect of the system because it was not important to the engineers either?).

Linpack at least has benchmarks both for showing off the cores in nearly independent scenarios, and for showing the system when actual communication has to take place. Obviously, each parallel application is different, but you'd at least show ONE indication of performance in situations that are not embarrassingly parallel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel).
Now that this rule has been made what happens next?
Thanks for the mention Dylan.

Just a little background: We spent months looking for a solution like this, and when we didn't find it, decided to make it. Still in beta, but have big plans in the space.
This seems very similar to Janus (https://github.com/carlhuda/janus). It has almost the exact same bundles and setup process.
Sometimes it is best to go for it. I remember reading an interview of the Paypal co-founder in which he said that when his site was launched he saw a lot of demand from eBay users but since they thought their site was not ready(?) for that, the fought tooth and nail to keep them away. But then something changed and they started allowing eBay users to use their service and the rest is history.

It could be a similar turning point from Stripe as well. Every time this comes up a good portion of the thread is dedicated to them not being International. Maybe if they just started doing this on a trial basis they will see how much business they have untapped. Or maybe some other business can use this leverage to offer similar services to instantly enter the market.
The Next Step for HPC is Into the Cloud
> Can you imagine doing that every single day of your life(putting the monitor face down on the desk surface, then bringing it back up)?

If every day i was collapsing my bed to get to the desk, sure. Just a minor extra step.
Best I can find is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug8jBO6QMaY which has the audio (low quality w/ buzzing noise), but video is just a blank green screen the whole time.
I have said it before here when people have discussed packaging up Vim stuff, and I stick by it: I really don't see this taking off.

Switching to using this does not appeal to me, an existing Vim user, and I think I am not an exception. If this does something new that I like I'll gladly throw that part into my setup, but there really isn't any reason at all that I can see for wanting to use this.

I don't think this is good for new Vim users either. If you are new to Vim there already is no shortage of things to learn (I think GVim steps up in this role nicely). Throwing more things into the mix isn't going to help a thing. And as you (slowly) pick up more and more of stock Vim, you are going to naturally build up your own setup. Before you know it you'll be at the same point that I think existing users are generally at.

This all said, I'm also a zsh user who cannot fathom why oh-my-zsh is popular...
How Ginzametrics (YC S10) helps huge sites get more search attention
We've been exercising this API for a couple weeks at DigMyData. So far so good. Right now the API event history only goes back 30 days so we're having to "create history" so we can offer some metrics that need events (like cancellations). Keep up the great work Stripe.
Make the web faster with mod_pagespeed, now out of Beta